Literature and development in North Africa
Subtitle: the modernizing mission
By: by Perri Giovannucci.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780415958189
Subjects: Arabic literature -- Africa, North -- History and criticism; Arabic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; North African literature (French) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and globalization -- Africa, North
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Modernization and its discontents; title: North Africa and the anti-colonial critics : Fanon, Memmi, Sartre, Camus; title: Camus, Djebar, and the 'non-color' of nonviolence; title: Paris on the Nile, Egypt on the plantation : development after Muhammad Ali; title: Letters of a lost generation : Alhadeff, Aciman, Said, Durrell, Mahfouz; title: The radical surgery of a woman doctor : Nawal el Saadawi; title: conclusion.